19414
Accession Number
27818
Author
Taft, W. Stanley;Mayer, James W.;Aderhold, Howard, C.; Keller, Matt;Rizzo, Gia
Editor
Vandiver, Pamela B.; Druzik, James R.; Wheeler, George Segan; Freestone, Ian C.
Author Affiliation
Cornell University. Department of Art;Cornell University. Department of Materials Science;Cornell University. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering;Cornell University;Cornell University
Title Of Article Chaper
Neutron induced autoradiography and PIXE analysis
Title Of Journal Book
Materials issues in art and archaeology III: symposium held 27 April-1 May 1992, San Francisco
Volume
267
Pages
319-323
Collation
6 figs., 1 table
Reference Bibliography
5 refs.
Publisher
Materials Research Society
Publisher City
Pittsburgh
ISBN
1-55899-162-X
ISSN
0272-9172
Language Of Text
English
Language Of Summary
English
Literature Type
Monograph
Literature Level
Analytic
Meeting
Materials Research Society Symposium
Meeting City
San Francisco
Abstract
We have used the TRIGA reactor and the Ion Beam Facility at Cornell to illustrate neutron induced autoradiography and PIXE analysis of known pigments in demonstration paintings made for our undergraduate coures, Art, Isotopes and Analysis. A group of pigments were chosen containing elements with half-lives detectable by the neutron activation process. The pigments (suspended in a binding of linseed oil) were first painted on test swatches of acetate and their characteristic x-ray lines measured with a 5 Mev beam of protons directed through a thin Kapton film for external (in air) analysis (PIXE). Three layers of images, each painted with a different pigment, overlay one another. The painting is then taken to the TRIGA reactor for neutron activation. After activation, the painting is placed in contact with sheets of Polaroid type AR positive transparency film at different times after exposure. The gamma spectra during the sequence are also measured to provide identification of the active isotopes during each film exposure.
Keywords
neutron;autoradiography;PIXE;analysis -- CAL
pub_id
19414
Meeting Date
19920427-19920501